Hero space star crusade quest wars

[mikedemana]

Love them both! Now, that's something I would pick up at a game store or convention. A pack of windows and doors! Yours looks great...

Mike Demana

[jhonpog]

Thanks Mikedemana.  The doors are just FDM prints stretched to fit the openings.  but yeah I reckon they'll look good.  Based of imperial assault doors I think. I was going to get fancy and have open and closed versions like in HQ but I think for now I'll just have to remove them from the board and that counts as 'open'

[jhonpog]

Here's board 2 basically done. I am working on board 3 and 4 at the same time.  This board is....fine?  I am wondering whether they are going to look too bland when put together. 

The original SC game has 1 target room on each board:  reactor, command centre, loadingbay, machine room or something like that.  I've tried to replicate this a bit without getting too specific.  I might have to put a bit of variety into the walls, perhaps add some aurebesh.  Oh well I'll see how it looks once it's together

[jhonpog]

Hi all

Here's boards 3 and 4. I'm on the wall pieces now.  I'm going to try and make them with a bit of detail on the walls, not too bland but has to be completed quickly or this project will stall

Do I ever really finish anything?   Not really more like finished-enough

[hubbabubba]

They're really effective, I like them a lot.

[jhonpog]

Thanks Hubba I stuffed up one room (bottom right of second pic) but i'm happy with the look and feel. More progress pics soonish

[beefcake]

Really Cool Idea. Once you've done this you need to work on Jabba's Palace!

[jhonpog]

Really Cool Idea. Once you've done this you need to work on Jabba's Palace!

:O  ha ha thanks Beefcake.  The boards do have an unpainted underside so I could do something once I've got this done

Next steps are:

Make the wall pieces (in progress)
Get in additional figures printed (in progress) and painted
Buy 2 sets of star wars monopoly for cards and tokens (got 1 need 1 more)
Work out scenarios/ adapt SC rules (in progress)
Mould and cast up doors (got 3 printed ones. The resin I have has expired so no casting yet gah!)

[jhonpog]

hi all small update.  here's the completed board pieces with the completed-ish walls. I ran out of gas for detailing the walls so in the interests in maintaining forward momentum I gave them a quick paint job and moved on:)

I really like the simple mechanic in space crusade where the laying out of the boards creates larger rooms at the edges once the wall sections are down.  Also lines of sight can go across 2 boards which can create interesting lines of fire (or higher risk movement) for all players

I've received some additional figures so i now have enough to field a full set of imperials against my cobbled together rebels.

Next challenges are casting up enough doors ( I need 24) and then on the cards AND THEN it's game on!

[fred]

This is a cool project.

I don't know the detail of the original games you are basing this off - so this question might be a bit naive. Up until the last picture (with the 3d walls) I was thinking the white lines and darker grey floors represented walls separating rooms / corridors. But then the 3d walls seem to cut across this. But you also mention 24 doors, so will there be more walls?

[jhonpog]

Hey Fred.

I put the white lines in to try and differentiate the corridors from the rooms.  The rooms have a (apparently too thin) black line around them with a 2 square break.  The doors go there.

So most of the walls are just black lines except the dividing 3d ones. I have no idea why they did it this way but it looks cool and is visually more interesting.  My walls are rather plain which reduces this effect ha ha

At the start of the game all the doors are in place and at some stage blip tokens are placed in whatever board the rebel (space marine) player is in.  Then it becomes a bit of a dungeon crawl/ aliens thing where blip tokens are revealed when the player enters a room.

I'll post a mock up of the game soonish cheers!